How to choose medical abortion or surgical abortion? See what the doctor says

The difference between medical abortion and surgical abortion is that medical abortion allows the embryo to flow out naturally by taking medicine, just like a menstrual period. For most people, this completes the task and does not require curettage. A small number (about 5%) of women with incomplete medical abortion need assisted curettage.

Generally, medical abortion is chosen for early pregnancy within 49 days of amenorrhea. Medical abortion must be performed in a hospital. You cannot take medicine at home to have an abortion. Another abortion method is to use some instruments to suck out or clamp the embryo from the uterus. This is called surgical abortion. There are various service conditions in hospitals now, including painless abortion, which uses some anesthetics to relieve pain.

In fact, the so-called painless abortion is to give local anesthesia or general anesthesia to the abortion recipient. In foreign countries, painless abortion surgery often uses local anesthesia with cervical block anesthesia combined with parenteral sedatives. For those with special requirements or who are particularly sensitive, general anesthesia is used. In recent years, many domestic hospitals have also been exploring simple, effective, and suitable abortion anesthesia methods for Chinese women.

It can be seen that painless abortion is just adding anesthesia and analgesia to conventional surgical abortion, so that women who undergo artificial abortion can complete the abortion without feeling or pain. This can eliminate or reduce women's fear of surgery and avoid the occurrence of intraoperative abortion syndrome.

But no matter which method is used to terminate pregnancy, it must be done in a regular large hospital. The two types of abortion are just different in the operation method. Both are to terminate pregnancy, one is a surgical method, and the other is a drug method.